Bavaria Mike
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- Feb 7, 2005
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- Detector(s) used
- Minelab XT70, Fisher 1280, Garrett Ace 250 and MH5
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Went to the castle on the 4th as I remembered my last visit the workers said they will be moving dirt around all summer. They were working today as well. Good guys, they even showed me where they had found some cross bow bolt tips although, I already knew the area. One guy said here comes the Digger guy as I walked up with my gear, LOL. These guys are from another Historical Society and want me to help them with their museum finds, a slight conflict of interest but I said I would consider it. One guy said he went to look at my museum display and he really liked it. I showed him a cross bow bolt tip I just found and had a hard time convincing him to let me keep it but he knew it would go into my museum display, that’s when he asked me to help them. Here’s the area where the finds came from, the base of the castle and also where it was attacked the hardest in the 1400’s. All the loose dirt will be removed to the bedrock and spread out and there is a lot of dirt here. Found a bolt tip near the base of the tower.
The backhoe and the reason I am allowed to detect here.
Found this large cannon ball fragment my last visit, gave it to the castle club as they also have a larger piece of it I found 10 years ago and reburied. It would have been very large, bigger than a basketball, fused with a charge inside and I understand it was launched via catapult. The piece I found here has part of the fuse hole. A little research on this confused me. They recently found two intact balls at a castle site here in Germany from the early 1600s. Check it out if you want.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,769016,00.html
The guys working on the castle had found this relic just before I got there and they asked me what it was. We all thought it might be a sickle but the blade is not sharp, round on the end and it seems too small to be a sickle.
The castle finds. A small lead spindle whorl in nice condition. I already put it in the museum.
One of two crossbow bolt tips from the 1400s. They are soaking in distilled water to loosen the rust, I’ll conserve them and put them in the museum in a month or so.
The other bolt tip. I have several different bolt tips now and wonder if they are from different battles or just different blacksmiths?
Obverse of a tiny silver coin. Not sure what it is and hope to get some forum help.
Obverse of coin, different angle.
Reverse of the coin, has a thick patina however, I can’t seem to make out any details and think it is a unifaced coin.
My cockerel valve taps from the 1500s displayed in the museum. The maker’s marks are clear and they are traced to the blacksmith’s that made them. These are from Nuremberg.
This is where the town of LangenBreucke (Long Bridge) once stood. Dates to the late 1200s and before. It was eradicated during WWII to expand the military training area. I actually know two people that were born there. This Ghost Town is just a few minutes from my office so I have been doing lunch hunts here. It was sad to realize the area has been completely scraped, just a few ruins remain and unfortunately, thousands of brass ammo casings everywhere. Here’s a good info link of the town, in German but lots of pictures, you will be surprised.
http://www.weber-rudolf.de/langenbruck
One of the ruins, I believe this was the church.
An old well.
A pile of trash and prevalent finds, LOL. I tried to clean out an area between two ruins on the southerly side and dug everything hoping to get to the deeper relics however, the relics aren’t there.
The only keepers so far. Not sure what the upper left is, a pewter button and a piece of furniture décor. Bottom are three pieces of stone. It looks glassy, feels waxy, is green in color. Jade crossed my mind but I really have no idea. HH, Mike
The backhoe and the reason I am allowed to detect here.
Found this large cannon ball fragment my last visit, gave it to the castle club as they also have a larger piece of it I found 10 years ago and reburied. It would have been very large, bigger than a basketball, fused with a charge inside and I understand it was launched via catapult. The piece I found here has part of the fuse hole. A little research on this confused me. They recently found two intact balls at a castle site here in Germany from the early 1600s. Check it out if you want.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,769016,00.html
The guys working on the castle had found this relic just before I got there and they asked me what it was. We all thought it might be a sickle but the blade is not sharp, round on the end and it seems too small to be a sickle.
The castle finds. A small lead spindle whorl in nice condition. I already put it in the museum.
One of two crossbow bolt tips from the 1400s. They are soaking in distilled water to loosen the rust, I’ll conserve them and put them in the museum in a month or so.
The other bolt tip. I have several different bolt tips now and wonder if they are from different battles or just different blacksmiths?
Obverse of a tiny silver coin. Not sure what it is and hope to get some forum help.
Obverse of coin, different angle.
Reverse of the coin, has a thick patina however, I can’t seem to make out any details and think it is a unifaced coin.
My cockerel valve taps from the 1500s displayed in the museum. The maker’s marks are clear and they are traced to the blacksmith’s that made them. These are from Nuremberg.
This is where the town of LangenBreucke (Long Bridge) once stood. Dates to the late 1200s and before. It was eradicated during WWII to expand the military training area. I actually know two people that were born there. This Ghost Town is just a few minutes from my office so I have been doing lunch hunts here. It was sad to realize the area has been completely scraped, just a few ruins remain and unfortunately, thousands of brass ammo casings everywhere. Here’s a good info link of the town, in German but lots of pictures, you will be surprised.
http://www.weber-rudolf.de/langenbruck
One of the ruins, I believe this was the church.
An old well.
A pile of trash and prevalent finds, LOL. I tried to clean out an area between two ruins on the southerly side and dug everything hoping to get to the deeper relics however, the relics aren’t there.
The only keepers so far. Not sure what the upper left is, a pewter button and a piece of furniture décor. Bottom are three pieces of stone. It looks glassy, feels waxy, is green in color. Jade crossed my mind but I really have no idea. HH, Mike
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